Derby City Museum and Art Gallery

Description:

Derby museum and Art Gallery is located in the city centre near the library and is home to a wide collection of paintings, wildlife, archaeology and Derby porcelain produced in the city from around 1750. 

Derby Museum and Art Gallery houses a wide range of important and attractive collections, covering porcelain, paintings, archaeology, history, local regiments, geology and wildlife.

The Museum’s collection of fine Derby porcelain, produced in the city since about 1750, is of international importance.

The Archaeology Gallery contains local material from the Stone Age to the middle Ages, with several fine Anglo-Saxon crosses and a splendid sarcophagus. There are also two Egyptian mummies.

The Military Gallery (now totally refurbished) tells the stories of local regiment such as the 9th/12th Royal Lancers, the Derbyshire Yeomanry and the Sherwood Foresters, with information available on a touch-screen computer.

The reconstructed Bonnie Prince Charlie Room commemorates Derby’s role in the 1745 Jacobite uprising complete with a figure of the Prince himself telling the tale of his doomed attempt to seize the throne.

Derbyshire geology and wildlife feature in the Museum’s latest displays, with a Time Tunnel, walk-in cave, hands-on exhibits, discovery area and a stunning series of reconstructed natural settings with typical Derbyshire wildlife.

The Museum’s exciting and varied temporary exhibitions programme provides about 20 regularly changing shows a year. There is also a schools service, holiday activities for all ages, and a museum shop selling an attractive range of souvenirs, slides, postcards and books on local topics.